Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3,510, Rendal Fernald, N.H.

SERVICE
NUMBER
N.H.
Fernald, Pernal or Randall
P 3510
CONTENTS

Declaration,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7 th of June, 1832. State of New Hampshire Rockingham County } ss.
On this twelfth day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty five, personally appeared before the Probate Court of the said County, Randal Fernald a resident of Portsmouth in the said County and State aged Eighty three years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed on the 7 th of June 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year 1777, with Capt Elisha Deering, in his company, of Artillery, and served in that Company of the State Troop of New Hampshire, Lebeliens on the continental establishment, under said Captain and Capt. George Turner; the other officers of the Company which he recollects were Samuel Hutchings

1 st Lieutenant, Nahum Akerman 1 st Sergeant, John Gardner 2 d Sergeant, Benjamin Chandler 3 d Sergeant: That He was stationed at Portsmouth and at the Forts in Portsmouth Harbour, and the chief command of all the troops in said Harbour was under that of Colonel Pierce Long: — That he enlisted in March 1777 and served until October 1777, when the company was ordered to Ticonderoga to fight Gen: Burgoyne, and then as discharged at the time they marched, because he had a lame knee, having served seven months; The whole of the time he was in the service, he was stationed at Portsmouth N.H. and its environs. That he does not now recollect for what term he enlisted, as his memory is much impaired, and only recollects that he served the above named term of Seven Months. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State.
Francis Journal
for Aug t 1776. Not on muster of Capt Deering's Co to Nov before Abner Loomis

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Sealed  Sealed John Kelly Register of Probate
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. John Harvey Judge of Probate
I John Kelley, Register and Clerk of the Court of Probate for said County, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Randal Fernald for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of the Probate Court this twelfth day of May A.D 1835.
John Kelley Register of Probate

P. and all Finald New Hampshire -
- Suspended -
24 18 May - 1835
M. B. Parker
Same 28 May 1835
Same 24 June 1835

Dec 10 1900 Navy Dept Boston Mass,
Ex'r.
OLD WAR.
No. 3510
Acts of July 14, 1862 and March 3, 1873.
Randall Fernald.
P. O.
Revolutionary
Service:
Enlisted:
, 18
Discharged:
, 18
Application filed:
, 18
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P. O.

I John Davenport of Portsmouth in the County of Rockingham and State of New-Hampshire, Aged Eighty two years, testify and say: That I am well acquainted with Randal Fernald of Portsmouth, who this day is to appear in the Probate Court to make his declaration in order to obtain a pension under the act of 1832: That I served in the same company that he did, first under the command of Capt George Towne after under that of , the command of Capt Elisha Dearing, but whether it was the same years that he served I am unable now to state; - That we have both generally resided in Portsmouth ever since the Revolutionary War; that I tho' I could find a list of the Officers and Soldiers of the company, which I made for my own information, but upon looking for it, I find I have lost it, and I now suppose it was burnt in the fire which destroyed my house in 1813: I have no doubt in my mind distinctly remember that said Randal Fernald served in said company; but what year it was, whether before or after the time I served I am unable to state, or how long he served,

but having been so long acquainted with Randall Fernald, I can with great safety state, that he has always been an excellent character, and I have no doubt that he is a man of strict truth and veracity; and that, unless his memory has failed and betrayed him into error, that both the term he served, which he says is Seven Months, and the year in which he served are both correct. I however am of opinion that said Fernald must have served after the year that I served, which were I think in the year 1775 & 1776 as he does not recollect my being a member of the Company. (Mem o . Two words erased, and seven new words interlined before signing.)
John Davenport
Sworn and subscribed this Twelfth day of May A. D. 1835 before me In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Notarial Seal this day and year

last aforesaid.
I also certify that this deponent is a man of truth and veracity, he having been for a great number of years a Magistrate of this County, he is well entitled to full faith & credit as any Member of this community.
Wm. B. Parker
Notary Public

  1 Samuel Shaburn Capt. 1 30 Hank J Faxon Fifer x   2 Supply Chap Lt. x 31 Dan l Hill Drumer 11   3 Nathl. Shaburn a o x 32 Sam l Place x   4 Joseph Seward bus n x 2 33 Isaac Walden x 12   5 Daniel Hart Sergt. x 34 John Sherburne 13   6 Abner Blazdell a o x 3 35 Mark Seasey 14   7 W m Gunton a o 36 Geo: Turner 15   8 W m Stemwood a o x 4 37 Peter Coues x 16   9 John Davenport Corpl. x 38 Reuben Shapley x 17   10 Cotton M c Steven a o x 39 Edw. Sargeant 18   11 John Beck j r a o x 40 Enoch Waloon x   12 Geo: Howans a o x 41 Reuben Daniels 19   13 W m Cotton j r Priv a x 42 Ion n Skillaber x   14 Sam l Hill x 43 John Reading j r 20   15 Rich d Hilton x 44 Winthrop Bennett 21   16 Geo: Howans 45 John Libby x   17 W m Vaughan x 5 46 John Jackson x   18 H J Bickford x 47 Francis Long x   19 John Gooch x 6 48 Edw d Dimpsey x   20 Moses Rofs 49 Nathl. Treadwell j r x   21 A. R. Cutter x 7 50 Randall Fernald 22   22 Samuel Bowles x 51 Benj t Byles x   23 Sam l Swift x 52 John Greenleaf x   24 B. G. Carter x 8 53 Geo: Hams x   25 Sam l M c M c x 9 54 Sam l Wardes 23   26 B. Gladburn x 55 W m Trefethen   27 Thos t Gooch 55 W m Trefethen x   28 Jas t Whickey x 56 Edmund Coffin x   29 Geo: Doag x 10 57 Lo Fitzgerald x 
I John Davenport of Portsmouth in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire Aged eighty two years, testify and say, That the foregoing is a true copy of a paper was in my possession, which was a Roll of the Company at the time that Randall Fernald was myself belonged to it: That it was given me at that time by some one who then

belonged to the Company, which I think was in the year 1775, that it is not in my hand writing, and I cannot now determine whose hand writing it was, but think it was the hand writing of Joseph Seawall Esq now deceased, that to the best of my knowledge and belief all the persons named on that Roll are also now deceased, except Randall Fernald and myself. That the original of which the foregoing is a true copy, has always been in my possession ever since the Revolutionary War and probably ever since the above date of 1775
John Davenport
Sworn and subscribed this Twenty second day of May 1835, before me; — In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Notarial Seal, the day and year last aforesaid.
William B. Parker
Notary Public

State of New-Hampshire.
Office of the Secretary of State.
J. JESSE A. GOVE , Deputy Secretary of State aforesaid, do hereby certify that William H. Hartt is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Rockingham duly commissioned and qualified, and duly authorized by the Laws of said State to administer oaths, take the acknowledgment of Deeds, &c. His commission was dated on the first day of November 1880 and will expire on the first day of November 1885.
Given under my hand and the Seal of the State, this 24th day of September 1882.
Jesse A. Gove Deputy Secretary of State.

POWER OF ATTORNEY. REVOLUTIONARY PENSION CLAIM.
Know all Men by these Presents, That I
Annie R. H. Fernald of Portsmouth in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire do hereby constitute and appoint G. E. Evans my true and lawful agent and attorney to prosecute the claim of Randall Fernald for any amount of Revolutionary Pension or Increase of Pension that may be due; and I hereby authorize my said agent to examine all the papers and documents of every description in relation to said claim that may be on file in the departments at Washington City or elsewhere; to file any additional evidence or arguments that can be obtained, and to receive the certificate which may issue for said claim, which certificate I wish made payable to myself; to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed, and to do all things that I might do were I personally present, hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said agent and attorney shall lawfully do in the premises.
Witness my hand and seal this twenty third day of September A. D. 1852.
Signed and sealed in presence of
M c H. Cackett, } Annie R. H. Fernald Amos G. Foster }
STATE OF New Hampshire Rockingham COUNTY, ss: On this twenty third day of September A. D. 1852, personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace, within and for the county and State aforesaid, Annie R. H. Fernald and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be her free act and deed for the purposes therein expressed. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year above mentioned.
M c H. Cackett Justice of the Peace.

CLAIM OF
Randall Fernald
Act of
June 7, 1882;
STATE OF New Hampshire
Rockingham COUNTY, ss.
BE IT KNOWN THAT, on this
twenty third day of September A. D. eighteen hundred and fifty-two before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Ammi R. H. Fernald,
a resident of Portsmouth in said county, and made oath according to Law, that he is a child of Randall Fernald, deceased, who was a Revolutionary Soldier - and applied for a Pension under the act of June 7, 1882;
that he has been informed that said pension ought to be increased  allowed , that he is directly interested as a claimant in said Pension, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence and arguments as my said agent may use in prosecuting said claim.
Witness:
Wm G. Cuckett } James P. Foster }
Ammi R. H. Fernald
Subscribed and duly sworn to the day and year aforesaid, before me William G. Cuckett a Justice of the Peace; and I do hereby certify that Ammi R. H. Fernald who has executed the foregoing affidavit before me is a respectable resident of this county, and is, I believe, directly interested in said claim as therein set forth.
Wm G. Cuckett Justice of the Peace.

Randall L. Randall P.A. Jan 71
E - D

Sir
Washington Sep. 25 th 1827.
We herewith enclose the proper authority to examine the papers and prosecute the claim of Randall Hornsald dec d at Hampshire, Mass. Oct 7 th June 1832.
Very respectfully Evans J. Hunt.
J. E. Heath Esq d Caret of Russians.

May 26 1832
Claim for a license under the Act of 1832.
L. Edwards Esq. Com. of Patents
City of Washington

Portsmouth N. H. May 22 nd 1835.
James L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions. Sir.
Your letter of the 18 th inst. I received this day, respecting the claim of Randal Fernald to a pension. You observe, "On examination of the Rolls of Capt Deering's Company of Col o Long's regiment, Randall Fernald does not appear to have been mustered after the 7 th January 1777. As he could not have joined the company before August, Six months actual service does not appear to have been performed and the claim cannot upon the present evidence be admitted."
Randal Fernald has no specific memory even of the year or years, in which he served, except he says, that he has no doubt whatever, that he served Seven Months; for he has always, when enquired of, ever since the Revolution, declared that he served seven months, as he observed to me: - But, Sir, he might not have served, but five months, under Capt Deering, and yet have served seven months or more in the same Company, for that company had several Captains: If you will refer to S. Davenport Esq's deposition transmitted with Randall's declaration, you will perceive, that George Turner was one of the Captains and Davenport has this day told me that Turner immediately succeeded Deering, in the Command, that Samuel Sherburne and Hall Jackson, were also Captains of the same Company.
Since John Davenport Esq gave the aforesaid deposition, he has found the Roll of the company, which he supposed he had lost, and which he took at the time, for his own information, but it does not appear from the paper, of which I beg leave to enclose a true copy, in what year the persons named in it served, but Mr Davenport thinks they are all dead except R. Fernald & himself, and that it was in 1775, and it appears that Samuel Sherburne was at that time the Captain.
I therefore respectfully pray you, in Fernald's behalf, that you will have the goodness to look to the Rolls of the other Captains above named, if they be extant and advise me of the result of this investigation.
I am, Sir, Respectfully Your Obedient Servant William B. Parker.

Portsmouth N. H. June 19 th 1835.
James L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions.
Sir: -
Your favor of the 28 th ultimo respecting Randall Fernald's claim to a pension under the Act of 1832 was duly received and is now before me.
Upon exhibiting it to Randall Fernald, who is a very poor but honest Man, he observed there must be some mistake, for he certainly served seven Months, that is fixed in his memory, and he said he had always declared so ever since the Revolution, that many years since, some of his friends asked him, why he did not get on the Pension list (meaning under the Act of 1818) and he told them then because he did not serve but seven months: But he has been unable to recollect or find any person who could testify to that fact.
He further observed that he was in the service of the State of New Hampshire, before he enlisted upon the Continental establishment, in the same company, but whether under Capt. Deering, Capt. George Turner or Capt. Hall Jackson he cannot say: But the Troops in this Harbour were all under the command of Col o . Long or his predecessor Col o . Gilman: That at a certain time, which he does not now recollect, orders came

from General Washington that the Men must recruit under the Continental establishment or they would not be paid any farther: That accordingly he did recruit in the same company under one of those Officers.
Now, Sir, is it not quite probable that he might have served two months or less, so as to make up the term of seven months, in the same Company under Capt. Dearing Capt. Geo. Turner or Capt. A. Jackson, as a Militia or State Troops Man?
I am very sorry to trouble you so much but if it would not be intruding to much of in your valuable time, I should be very thankful, if you would refer to the State Troops roll to see if that be not the case.
I am, Sir, very respectfully
Your M c O b t. Serv t
W m B. Parker

MS. A. 9. 2. 18 32.013
James L. Brown Esq. Commissioner of Pensions, City of Washington, D. C.
W.P. 11. 1. 1832 for a Pension No. 11, 1832
52

Portsmouth N.H. May 13 th 1835.
Samuel L. Edwards Esq. Chairman of the Commission of Pensions. Sir:
I beg leave to enclose Randall Fernald's declaration in order to his being placed upon the pension list, pursuant to the Act of 7 th June 1832: - Also, John Davenport Esq's. Deposition in support of said claim. Whereupon his case is decided upon, or any further communications or evidence that may be necessary to be made, whereby his Certificate or those communications to be made to you.
I am, Sir, respectfully,
Your M c Ob t Serv t
Wm B. Parker